Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-03
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.

CHESTER, August 1.-Several members
| of Sandy River Grange ofthis county leave
to-day for S%partanburg, where they are
anticipating a week of pleasure IN attend
ance upon the Interstate Grange Encamp-
ment. They will 60 in their W convey
ances, and carry along their own tents
and provisions. The Sandy River Band
had also thought of sharing in the pleas
ures of the encampment, but sickness IN
the families of some of their number will
not permit of their absence from home.
A merchant of our town, who has great
faith in advertising and consequently
makes a lavish use of printers ink, receiv-
ed an order a few days ago from a party
in Texas. He is constantly receiving orders
from persons in different portions OF the
State, He believesi in utilizing the columns
of CITY paper as we'll as those of our own
town with a view of increasing the num-
Der of his customers. The result bears
testimony to the wisdom of the means he
has employed.
Mayor Jones of our town attended the
farmers picnic at Massey's store in York
county on last Monday. He %pronounces
it a great success in every particular.
A Watermelon train on the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad ran into
another train about two miles from THIS
place on last Wednesday morning. The
front train was standing still at the time
of the collision. The engine of the second
train was wrecked, and about a dozen
cars badly smashed. The engineer n
fireman saved their lives by jumping, but
at the same time receiving severe injuries.
It is no easy matter to name any particular
person upon whose shoulders to place the
responsibility for the collision. Certainly
some one was guilty of great careleSsness
and neglect of duty, or the disaster would
not have occurred. It is an admitted fact
that the colored man who was sent back
by the conductor ofthe tirsttrain with q flag
to stop the approaching train did not 60 a
sufficient distance. He did not 60 exceed
ing three hundred yards, whereas he should
have gone at least one-halfm mile as the track
was down grade at that place. There are
those who reflect on the conductor of the
first train for not enforcing a strict per-
Torrance of duty on the part of the flag
man. They say that with a full knoWl-
edge of an approaching train he should
not have trusted 50 entirely to a colored
man, but should have given his own at
tention to the carrying out Of such orders
as the occasion required. Reflections are
also cast on the engineer of the second
train for running at such rapid speed
when sc close in rear OF another train.
But it must be remembered that the mo-
mentum of so long a train and so heavily
loaded, increased by the falling grade, pro-
duced necessarily a rapid rate of speed.
The railroad authorities will doubtless
investigate the cause of the collision, and
lay the blame where it rightly belongs:
A prominent railroad man has informed
me that the loss by the wreck will not
exceed $4,000. $4,000, he says, will repair
the engine and 5000 the box cars.
A bountiful supply of rain fell in this
county last week. There were some dry
spots about, but these have doubtless been
plentifully watered by this time. Some
think that the supply of rain is superb
bundant as far as the welfare of cotton is
concerned.
The surveying corps of the Georgia, Car
DINA and Northern Railroad were engaged
last week in locating a line along the
northern portion of our town. They will
locate a line along the southern portion,